claim
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kleɪm/
claim (plural claims)
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a claim of ownership
- a claim of victory
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
- (legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- French: réclamation
- German: Anspruch
- Italian: reclamo, rivendicazione
- Portuguese: reivindicação, reclamo
- Russian: прете́нзия
- Spanish: reclamación, declaración, proposición, afirmación
- French: titre
- German: Rechtstitel, Anspruch
- French: affirmation
- German: Behauptung
- Italian: dichiarazione, affermazione
- Portuguese: afirmação, alegação
- Russian: заявле́ние
- Spanish: afirmación
- French: réclamation, revendication
- German: Anspruch, Mutung mining
- Italian: reclamo di proprietà
- Portuguese: reivindicação
- Russian: прете́нзия
- Spanish: concesión
- French: réclamation, demande
- German: Anspruch
- Portuguese: reclamação
- Russian: иск
- Spanish: demanda
claim (claims, present participle claiming; past and past participle claimed)
- To demand ownership of.
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], OCLC 83985187 ↗:
- We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
- To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
- The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
- A fire claimed two homes.
- (archaic) To proclaim.
- (archaic) To call or name.
- French: revendiquer
- German: beanspruchen
- Italian: reclamare, rivendicare, vantare
- Portuguese: reivindicar, reclamar
- Russian: претендова́ть
- Spanish: reclamar
- French: prétendre
- German: behaupten
- Italian: dichiarare, affermare
- Portuguese: alegar, afirmar
- Russian: объявля́ть
- Spanish: afirmar
- German: beanspruchen
- Italian: reclamare la proprietà, reclamare il possesso
- Portuguese: reivindicar
- Russian: претендова́ть
- Russian: тре́бовать выплата
- Spanish: demandar
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